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Grade means "to evaluate or rank," like teachers who grade their students or a food inspector who grades a crop, determining whether it is "food-grade."

Grade can be both a noun and a verb. The verb form is used when you grade something, meaning you assign it a value. The actual mark assigned is the noun version of the word grade, such as an A or B. The noun grade can be used to indicate the rank or quality of other items as well, like professional-grade cookware. Grade can also describe the slope of a mountain or road, like a steep grade that is dangerous in bad weather.

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: grade

1	n v	a position on a scale of intensity or amount or quality determine the grade of or assign a grade to
2	n v	one-hundredth of a right angle level to the right gradient
3	n	a variety of cattle produced by crossbreeding with a superior breed

FULL DEFINITIONS OF: grade

n a position on a scale of intensity or amount or quality

“a moderate grade of intelligence”

Synonyms:: degree, level

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a degree or grade of excellence or worth; intensity, intensiveness
high level or degree; the property of being intense; grind
the grade of particle fineness to which a substance is ground; depth
degree of psychological or intellectual profundity; highness
a high degree (of amount or force etc.); high
a lofty level or position or degree; low
a low level or position or degree; lowness
a low or small degree of any quality (amount or force or temperature etc.); extreme
the furthest or highest degree of something; amplitude level
the level on a scale of amplitude; moderateness, moderation
quality of being moderate and avoiding extremes; immoderateness, immoderation
the quality of being excessive and lacking in moderation; SPF, sun protection factor
the degree to which a sunscreen protects the skin from the direct rays of the sun; high quality, superiority
the quality of being superior; inferiority, low quality
an inferior quality; force, forcefulness, strength
physical energy or intensity; badness, severeness, severity
used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather; emphasis, vehemence
intensity or forcefulness of expression; top
the greatest possible intensity; ferocity, fierceness, furiousness, fury, vehemence, violence, wildness
the property of being wild or turbulent; profoundness, profundity
intellectual depth; penetrating knowledge; keen insight; etc; shallowness, superficiality
lack of depth of knowledge or thought or feeling; golden mean
the middle between extremes; reasonableness
moderation in expectations; excess, excessiveness, inordinateness
immoderation as a consequence of going beyond sufficient or permitted limits

Type of:: property
a basic or essential attribute shared by all members of a class

n a relative position or degree of value in a graded group

“lumber of the highest grade”

Synonyms:: level, tier

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the level of safety from exposure to infectious agents; depends on work practices and safety equipment and facilities; A level
the advanced level of a subject taken in school (usually two years after O level); GCSE, General Certificate of Secondary Education, O level
the basic level of a subject taken in school; college level
the level of education that college students are assumed to have attained; biosafety level 1
exposure only to infectious agents that do not ordinarily cause human disease; biosafety level 2
exposure to infectious agents that can cause disease in humans but whose potential for transmission is limited; biosafety level 3
exposure to infectious agents that can be transmitted by the respiratory route and which can cause serious infection; biosafety level 4
exposure to exotic infectious agents that pose a high risk of life-threatening disease and can be transmitted as an aerosol and for which there is no vaccine or therapy

Type of:: rank
relative status

n a body of students who are taught together

Synonyms:: class, course, form

Types:: master class
a class (especially in music) given to talented students by an expert; discussion section, section
a small class of students who are part of a larger course but are taught separately

Type of:: assemblage, gathering
a group of persons together in one place

n a number or letter indicating quality (especially of a student's performance)

“grade A milk”

Synonyms:: mark, score

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a numerical value assigned to a letter grade received in a course taken at a college or university multiplied by the number of credit hours awarded for the course; centile, percentile
(statistics) any of the 99 numbered points that divide an ordered set of scores into 100 parts each of which contains one-hundredth of the total; decile
(statistics) any of nine points that divided a distribution of ranked scores into equal intervals where each interval contains one-tenth of the scores; quartile
(statistics) any of three points that divide an ordered distribution into four parts each containing one quarter of the scores

Type of:: evaluation, rating, valuation
an appraisal of the value of something

n a degree of ablaut

Synonyms:: gradation

Type of:: ablaut
a vowel whose quality or length is changed to indicate linguistic distinctions (such as sing sang sung song)

v determine the grade of or assign a grade to

Type of:: assort, class, classify, separate, sort, sort out
arrange or order by classes or categories

v assign a grade or rank to, according to one's evaluation

“grade tests”

Synonyms:: mark, score

Type of:: appraise, assess, evaluate, measure, valuate, value
evaluate or estimate the nature, quality, ability, extent, or significance of

v assign a rank or rating to

Synonyms:: order, place, range, rank, rate

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place in a superior order or rank; shortlist
put someone or something on a short list; seed
distribute (players or teams) so that outstanding teams or players will not meet in the early rounds; reorder
assign a new order to; subordinate
rank or order as less important or consider of less value; prioritise, prioritize
assign a priority to; sequence
arrange in a sequence; downgrade
rate lower; lower in value or esteem; upgrade
rate higher; raise in value or esteem; invert, reverse
reverse the position, order, relation, or condition of; countermarch
change the order of soldiers during a march; outclass
cause to appear in a lower class

Type of:: evaluate, judge, pass judgment
form a critical opinion of

n one-hundredth of a right angle

Synonyms:: grad

Type of:: angular unit
a unit of measurement for angles

n the gradient of a slope or road or other surface

“the road had a steep grade”

Types:: rise, rising slope, upgrade
the property possessed by a slope or surface that rises; downgrade
the property possessed by a slope or surface that descends

Type of:: gradient, slope
the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the horizontal

n the height of the ground on which something stands

“the base of the tower was below grade”

Synonyms:: ground level

Type of:: elevation
distance of something above a reference point (such as sea level)

v level to the right gradient

Types:: aggrade
build up to a level by depositing sediment

Type of:: even, even out, flush, level
make level or straight

n a variety of cattle produced by crossbreeding with a superior breed

Type of:: Bos taurus, cattle, cows, kine, oxen
domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or age

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